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Simple solution for safer peanuts revealed
10:47 26 June 03 NewScientist.com news service

There is a simple way to produce safer peanuts that are less likely to trigger life-threatening allergic reactions - the problem is that they might not taste so good after the processing.

In the US alone, an estimated 1.5 million people suffer from nut allergies. But now food engineers have discovered that the maturation, curing and roasting of peanuts increases their allergen content, so by tweaking these processes the nut industry may be able to make them safer....